Bowburn care home

Full electrical design services for a purpose-built care home development in Bowburn, covering the design and coordination of electrical building services to support resident accommodation, communal facilities, staff areas and specialist care environments.

A care home is a residential building with the resilience requirements of a healthcare one. Residents cannot self-evacuate, so the fire strategy is built around progressive horizontal evacuation, and that decides the compartmentation the electrical design has to cross and how the alarm is zoned and caused to operate.

Standby provision follows from the same point. Nurse call, alarm systems, emergency lighting and the equipment individual residents depend on are the loads that must survive a supply failure, so what sits on the essential supply is a design decision taken at the start rather than an inventory taken at the end.

The design incorporated power distribution, lighting, emergency lighting, fire alarm systems, data infrastructure and life safety systems — ensuring compliance with current standards while creating a safe, comfortable and efficient environment for residents and staff.